Believe in your dreams...

The people who love you want you to succeed.  They may not see eye to eye with you and may in fact not have a belief in your goal but that doesn't matter.  As long as they love you unconditionally, give you a positive flow and space to fall and/or grow with a little dignity.  So if you know someone with a dream, let them know you believe in them....as long as they know that the dream is not in lieu of responsibilities but in addition too. 

It also is an amazing feeling when you can look back and say "you see I told you I would do it!" and they are humble enough to say you were right.  

Here is your list of required school supplies.....

Every year I get a school supply list and most of the time the same crap is on it.
Loose-leaf paper
Composition Notebooks
Subject Dividers
Folder
Pens & Pencils
Pencil Sharpner
Pencil Case

And every year I see the same items not being used.  My kid never has the pens I bought but always ones he finds in class. The case is usually found mid-school year under the bed - with the unused pencil sharpener. Last year's composition notebooks are only half filled. Subject dividers are not used because he has 5 different composition notebooks and has a tendency to shove the sheets in any available folder - no matter what it is labeled.

Then my kid wonders why I just cut out the first half of last year's English composition notebook to use this year.  Went through all the old binders and accumulated a stack of unused loose-leaf paper….Staples was charging $5 for a 500 sheet pack….Oh hell no.

"Damn ma – you have me going in as a sophomore like this?"
He is lucky I don't send him in with a tablet and chalk or a bucket of dirt and a stick.

Go earn that scholarship baby!